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A Standardized Review of Bat Names Across Multiple Taxonomic Authorities
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Sherman, A., Geiselman, C., Poelen, J., Simmons, N., Reeder, D., Upham, N., Phelps, K., & Agosti, D. (2024). A Standardized Review of Bat Names Across Multiple Taxonomic Authorities [Data set]. Zenodo. (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11193643)
The taxonomic boundaries of species and higher-level taxa change relatively frequently as knowledge of population structure and evolutionary relationships improves, and older hypotheses are reframed. For the order Chiroptera (bats), valid names have long been assessed by multiple authorities, but differences among the resulting classifications largely remain unharmonized amongst authorities. We collected and aligned treatments across three primary taxonomic authorities for Chiroptera to create a single dynamic and versioned name translation tool. The resulting Bat Taxonomy Alignment will expedite future taxonomic assessments. The complexities uncovered in this alignment suggest the need for more explicit tracking of taxonomic concepts and usage of names in the future, particularly since biodiversity data (including hosts of zoonotic diseases) are cataloged and tracked using taxonomic names.
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Table 1. {{ BTA }} Resources in XSLX, Google sheet, TSV, CSV, and JSON-L formats.
Figure 1. BTA Agreement Index using Viridis scale. Yellow/light colors indicate more agreement, green/dark shades indicate less agreement.
Figure 2. A clickable heatmap containing all BTA concepts and their associated agreement index organized in no particular order. Yellow/light colors indicate more agreement, green/dark shades indicate less agreement.
Table 2. {{ BTA }} agreement matrix. Each cell indicates the number of concept disagreements across catalog pairs. Total number of concepts in {{ BTA }} is -. Yellow/light colors indicate more agreement, green/dark shades indicate less agreement.
{%- for name in site.data.names %}
{%- assign conceptId = name.treatmentId | split: ",L" | last | split: "." | first %}
{%- assign backgroundColorId = conceptId | modulo: 2 %}
{%- assign colors = "#cff0ff, #effaff" | split: ", " %}
{%- assign color = colors[backgroundColorId] %}
{%- assign conceptId = conceptId | prepend: "BTA_" %}
{%- endfor %}
Table 3. {{ BTA }} treatments, agreement index, and their associated names. The agreement index is ratio of the number of pairwise agreements for a concept versus the total number of possible pairwise agreements. Yellow/light colors indicate more agreement, green/dark shades indicate less agreement. Download table (minus agreement index) as tsv, csv, or json.
